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March 2008

March 28

Crucifixion necessary step to redemption

March 28, 2008

Third Sunday of Easter (Year A) April 6 (Acts 2:14, 22-28; Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1:17-21; Luke 24:13-35) How does one make sense of the absurd, tragic and senseless? The early Christians had their work cut out for them.

Death of a pet comes with happy ending

March 28, 2008

When a pet dies, it’s often a child’s first experience with death. This was the case with my son and his Betta fish, Noel, a Christmas gift several years ago.

Bella to open across Canada

March 28, 2008

TORONTO - Bella, a small movie that has been making big waves everywhere from the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the 2007 People’s Choice Award, to church halls where it has been showing in recent months, is finally coming to commercial movie screens across Canada.

Carleton honours Project Ploughshares founder

March 28, 2008

OTTAWA - They haven’t retired his jersey but Carleton University’s Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs is raising Christian peace activist Ernie Regehr up into its pantheon of public policy stars.

Education boom funds aid northern schools

March 28, 2008

BRADFORD, Ont. - Catholic high school students in Bradford will get a little taste of Ontario’s $4-billion Good Places to Learn fund in the form of a $5.1-million renovation at Holy Trinity High School. And in another sign of the education boom outside Toronto, the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board has named its newest elementary school now under construction in Barrie’s south end.

Bioethics institute hosts weekend conference

March 28, 2008

TORONTO — For doctors who know the opposite of medicine is not prayer, the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute has organized three days of workshops and discussion. “The Vocation of the Catholic Physician: Integrating the Practical, the Bioethical and the Spiritual” will run April 25 to 27 at the University of St. Michael’s College.

Poverty forum planned

March 28, 2008

TORONTO — The people who want to hold Ontario’s Liberal government to its poverty reduction promises are plotting their strategy April 14.

Love of Christian music turns into career

March 28, 2008

OTTAWA - Ottawa native Robert Du Broy is a veteran media manager, producer and long-time promoter of Christian radio in Canada. He co-founded Christian Hit Radio Inc., which operates CHRI 99.1 FM in Ottawa.

God is my family's glue

March 28, 2008

On Jan. 11, 2004, at 10 p.m. I walked into the emergency room of the Foothills Hospital in Calgary. My mother lay immobilized on a spine board. I prayed to God not to take her away from me.

The progression of Orthodoxy

March 28, 2008

Encountering the Mystery: Perennial Values of the Orthodox Church by Patriarch Bartholomew I (Doubleday, 254 pages, hardcover, $25). Before reading Encountering the Mystery, I could not have told you the name of the patriarch of Constantinople, but still considered myself adequately informed about the history and practices of Orthodox Christianity. I understood the Orthodox Church to be truly ancient in both the commendable and the less welcome senses of the term — faithfully continuing the apostolic tradition in a way that has avoided innovation for many centuries.

March 31

Lobby seeks tobacco-free Vatican City

March 31, 2008

VATICAN CITY - Papal visits tend to bring out special interest groups, and one already has surfaced in the United States. Physicians and Nurses Against Tobacco, a Rhode Island-based organization, is asking Pope Benedict XVI to support its campaign for a tobacco-free society.